Track Listing
1. Rite of Passage
2. Lock and Load
3. By the River
4. Manhattan
5. I Wonder
6. It's a Mystery
7. Revisionism Street
8. Golden Boy
9. I Can't Save You Angelene
10. 16 Shells From a 30-6
11. West of the Moon
12. Hands in the Air
| Details | | Contributing Artists: | Little Feat, Oren Waters | | Producer: | Bob Seger | | Distributor: | EMI Music Distribution | | Recording Type: | Studio | | Recording Mode: | Stereo | | SPAR Code: | n/a |
Album Notes
Personnel: Bob Seger (vocals, acoustic guitar, guitar, piano, synthesizer, bass, programming); Tim Mitchell, Michael Thompson, Fred Tackett (guitar); Rick Vito (slide guitar); Alto Reed (saxophone, baritone saxophone); George Bohannon (trombone); Roy Bittan (piano); Craig Frost (electric piano, keyboards, synthesizer, drum programming); Jeffry "C.J." Vanston (keyboards, synthesizer); Billy Payne (synthesizer); Chris Campbell, Bob Glaub, Buell Neidlinger (bass); Eddie Bayers, Harry Stinson, Kenny Aronoff, Russ Kunkel, Richard Hayward (drums); Gary Mallaber (brush snare); Scott Crago (bang drum); Samuel Clayton, Thomas Roady (maracas); Rudy Richman (percussion);
Laura Creamer, Shaun Murphy, Rosemary Butler, Donny Gerrard, Luther Waters, Julia Waters, Oren Waters (background vocals).
Engineers: David Cole, Shelly Yakus, Thom Panunzio.
Bob Seger's first album came out way back in 1969, and since then the man has been reinventing and enforcing rock-music basics. His style of attack is heavily fortified in the rock idiom--the driving songs, the wary acoustic pangs, the gospel-infused backing vocals. Seger's rock is the true rock of the common man, without the pompous stadium extravagancies of many of his contemporaries.
IT'S A MYSTERY shows that Seger still has his punch. There's the gritty tale of "Manhattan," with its dark corners and faceless overdoses, the lost frontier of "Rite Of Passage," and the pent-up evangelic charm of "Revisionism Street." A man who knows the history of great rock songs because he has written some of them, Seger is necessary at this point because of his knowledge of the scene he works in. "No one's memory is sacred here," he admits, "this is revisionism street."
In an era when the box set is enabling rock's history to become available in text-book form, it is impressive to hear Bob Seger make the authentic and aware music of IT'S A MYSTERY.
Editorial Reviews
4 Stars - Excellent - ...Seger plays to his strengths with a dustblown selection of ragged and powerful rockers...
Q (01/01/1996)
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